The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-12

douS Will convey Detter unuer-
standing Of his character than more
general assertions regarding him.
While cadet at the military academy
at st. Petersburg, young Kaulbars
achieved reputation as being aprig.
He was fairly good student and rare
ly INDUCED in mad pranks, but was
the more disliked by his young COM
rades on that account. Duelng is for
hidden to the cadets. and severe penal
ties melted out to transgressors. For
all that, as in other countries, certain
insults among the young fellows must
be washed out in blood. Thus one day
Kaulbars had made himself specially
obnoxious to comrade, the young
Prince M-lu-k-w, and received a
slap in the face from the latter A
challenge followed, of course, but when
the hour for the bloody rencontre came
both of the principals were arrested by
order of the governor of the academy
and punished for their intended oflense
by weeks incarceration. 1t was
never actually settled who had acted
the informer on this occasion, but sus-
picion attached itself to young Kaul-
bars, whose bearing at the critical
moment seemed TO justify it. He from
that hour on became all the more un-
popular, and this unpopularity follow
ed him into the army. An event which
happened about ten years ago tended
to even increase this feeling. There
was at that time serving In the Russian
guard corps an eminent Afghan
prince, Sirdar Islander Ahmed Khan,
cousin-german of Abdurrahman
Kahn, the present ameer, and
pretender 10 the throne. This man
has Russ an sympathies, and is even at
the present day protege OF Russia, al
though he with the rest of the Afghan
pretenders is now Il nominal prisoner
of the shah of Teheran. ! had the
story Of his encounter with Gen. Kaul-
bars from the lips OF Islander Khan
himself Well, then, ISLANDER Kahn,
who bore at the time the rank and title
of lieutenant colonel in the elite corps
named is an orthodox Moslem, but had
by long association with men in the cap
iialso the world learned to somewhat
relax his strictness in observing GER
tain tenots of his creed, such rs drinking
VINE, for instance. In fact. he had be-
come quite boon companion of the
bon yivanls in the ranks OF the Russian
army. On one occasion Kaulbars was
one of his invited guests and during
the carposal, wi lei was kept uptill q
late hour oflhe night, Kaulbars gross
" insultcd his Afghan host Next
morning, when achallenge was sent to
him, Kaulbars abjec1y apologzed,
and added that under no circumstances
would he fight man under the direct
protect on of the car All those who
knew him well attributed this course of
action on Kaulbars' part TO cowardice.
The Afghan prince, however, did not
accept the apology conveyed to him by
his second but insisted on a formal
one made in the presence of witnesses
and in such humiiating terms to which
no man of principle would have sub
m.ttcd But Kaulbars put up with
this Taught treatment and humbly
begged the Afghan's pardon.
A gentleman who knows Gen Kaul-
bars quite intimately. Gen. Sherpalofi,
one OF the most popular and intellect
ual men amongst the higher command
ers in the Russian army, told me the
following Incident to which he was an
eyewitness: At dinner given by
Gen. Kaulbars, one of the lackeys in
attendance on the guests inadvertently
broke Sevres plate. Gen. Kaulbars
rose from the table, beckoned the man
to follow him into the adjoining room,
and then he administered TO the poor
devil such brutal castigation with a
horsewhip as to leave MIN bleeding
and unconscious on the floor. The
whizzing sound made by the whip in
cutting the air, and the suppressed
cries and sobs for mercy of the delin.
quent could be plainly heard by the
merrymakers next door. Then the
host returned and resumed his seat at
the head Of the table, exactly as II
nothing had happened. not even be-
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